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It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves.
Karl Marx
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
Lao Tzu
We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universe, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.
Charles Darwin
Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.
William Wordsworth
She seemed a thing that could not feel the touch of earthly years.
For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!
Edward Abbey
Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.
H. G. Wells
Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.
Blaise Pascal
How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!
Emily Dickinson
It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
Edmund Burke
What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.
Werner Heisenberg
Philosophy would render us entirely Pyrrhonian, were not nature too strong for it.
David Hume
There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature and the revelations of great art are equally difficult to define we can grasp them only in the depths of our perceptive spirit.
Ansel Adams
Quantum computation is... a distinctively new way of harnessing nature... It will be the first technology that allows useful tasks to be performed in collaboration between parallel universes.
David Deutsch
Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The highest purpose is to have no purpose at all. This puts one in accord with nature, in her manner of operation.
John Cage
Deceit is the game of petty spirits, and that is by nature a woman's quality.
Pierre Corneille
Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.
Zoos are becoming facsimiles - or perhaps caricatures - of how animals once were in their natural habitat. If the right policies toward nature were pursued, we would need no zoos at all.
Michael J. Fox
